Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750895AbVJAX2s (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Oct 2005 19:28:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750901AbVJAX2s (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Oct 2005 19:28:48 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:14015 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750895AbVJAX2r (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Oct 2005 19:28:47 -0400 Subject: RE: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel From: Alan Cox To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: "Salyzyn, Mark" , "Tuikov, Luben" , andrew.patterson@hp.com, dougg@torque.net, Linus Torvalds , Luben Tuikov , SCSI Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1128102837.3012.15.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <547AF3BD0F3F0B4CBDC379BAC7E4189F01A9FA11@otce2k03.adaptec.com> <1128102837.3012.15.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:55:52 +0100 Message-Id: <1128210952.17099.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 671 Lines: 16 On Gwe, 2005-09-30 at 19:53 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > that makes me wonder... why and how does T10 control linux abi's ?? Indirectly the standards do define APIs at the very least. A good example is taskfile. ACPI methods (which we don't yet use) allow get/set mode, get features on the motherboard ATA controller if you don't know how to drive it. The objects they work in are taskfiles. No taskfiles, no ACPI. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/